Author: SaltyJustice

Hey Did I Miss Something?

There was a release earlier this week so I had to make a page for that. Go check that out if you only usually check this page on Mondays! It also contains information on what the mod for WHI actually is and how to use it.

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Version 4.26 of Runes of Pandemonium is Out

Download it! (Mediafire / Mega.nz) (Win/Lin/Mac Bundle)

Changelog:

Minor
*Sammie and Jackie will no longer recognize Florentina in her Agarist class.
*Jobs can now manually specify face tables (useful for mods).

Bugs UFOs
*Victoria now uses a sword slash instead of poison animation for Rapier Slice.
*Added Wisphags to the bestiary
*Fixed the text not aligning in the bestiary.
*Can no longer strangle mannequin enemies.
*Fixed pain sounds sometimes playing when the voice play chance is “never”.
*Fixed enemies failing to pathfind in vertically large rooms.
*Missed abilities now show their title.
*Can no longer chat with Florentina during a section of the mannequin quest.
*Fixed a paragon ability “Fatal Sting” having a chaser set incorrectly.

Mostly a bugfix release, there may or may not be one more of these before it’s full-speed on the chapter 5 bugs.

Version 1.11 of Witch Hunter Izana is out!

I’m leaving it on the beta branch of Steam for a day or two just in case I made a huge mistake somewhere and it’d blow up the base game. On Itch.io it can be downloaded as usual.
Changelog:

-Fixed Izana’s Piety not restoring 10 MP.
-Essences from tough enemies now have a 100% drop chance instead of 99%.
-Fixed some missing trees in the Villa.
-Fixed one of the Orcville enemy groups using the wrong enemy listing.
-Removed some diagnostic text.
-Fixed Caelyn’s Bolas not showing the evade icon.
-Fixed an issue with older savefiles that made Izana disappear during NG+.
-Caelyn’s Inspire can no longer miss/glance.
-Fixed items not unlocking when playing with translation active.
-Missed abilities now show their title.
-Loading a save in the Monastery courtyard should stop music from playing from the title screen.
-Bestiary should correctly toggle censoring along with enemy censoring in the options menu.
-Added title display to some enemy skills that didn’t have them.
-Updated some of the text in the final scenes to better describe the tiles in the final room.
-Stats for the next level up are displayed on the level up UI.
-Updated boss victory callouts for JP translation.

I have also updated the PaletteForms mod to v1.01 to fix some of the bugs. (Mediafire / Mega.nz)

-Fixed bestiary misalignments.
-Added other enemies to bestiary.
-Fixed attuned charms for the new forms.
-New enemies now appear in Hard Mode groupings in addition to normal groupings.
-Fixed level-up portraits not being aligned correctly.

Development Stuff

We are now off to the races on the chapter 5 stuff, amazingly, ahead of schedule. I didn’t think I’d do the WHI mod stuff until the end of March. First is bugfixing, then a few content changes, then the new quest.

Koops is now designing the new characters for chapter 5, namely the trainer and fortune tellers. Chicken actually wanted to draw some characters for the chapter 2 update but who knows when that’ll happen. Hund is now working on the chapter 2 intro scene, and I tricked Urimas into doing commissions.

Perhaps most amazingly, Wispy is helping with the code! That’s right, several chapter 5 skills have already been modernized and bugfixed by Wispy! It has taken 8 years to get to this point, where someone is helping me with the code.

Pyxxis promises he has a bunch of the maps for the Tellurium Mines done but I don’t know if the full set will be ready by the time the update comes out, they may need to be patched in later.

Niko and Dmitri were apparently extremely patient during the team meeting because it was right around feeding time and they were starving. We all thanked them for their patience.

There will be a budget report next week. I was going to do it this week but payouts are on the 5th and oh what a tragedy. I BLAME YOU, LEAP YEAR.

Fan Art!

I am told this is how rubbery slimes make friends. Right? Totally innocent! There’s an NSFW version that I will post on the Patreon/Subscriberstar but I don’t want any of you to get in trouble for browsing my smut game website at work.

And then this happened. Artwork by the lovely Xandra K / BestLilBurger.

Florentina she’s happy knock it off.

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

Chapter 1 Update is Now Public!

Download Version 4.25! (Mega.nz / Mediafire) (Win/Lin/Mac Bundle)

February is now gone and can’t hurt you anymore, and that means the Chapter 1 Update for Runes of Pandemonium is now public. It contains several new transformations, some new areas, oodles of bugfixes, deep lore, and a new quest.

Witch Hunter Izana v1.10 Beta – With Mod Support

If you are privy to Witch Hunter Izana, then you can now get version 1.10. This is a Beta release, as it may have bugs related to the addition of engine changes for the Japanese translation effort. In fact the JP translation is included though it is incomplete at the moment.

If you are using Steam, enter the beta password “PumpernickelBread” to unlock the beta. On Itch.io you can download version 1.10 directly. If you got the game via the blog, then I have updated the support page.

DB-Palette’s New Forms Mod

The mod is available here (Mediafire) (Version 1.0). To install it, unzip it into your Witch Hunter Izana/Games/AdventureMode/Chapter C/Mods/ folder, run the game, and enable it by clicking the empty box on the right side of the mod load order menu. Make sure to hit Save after enabling the mod.

Update: Updated mod to version 1.01, bugfixes. (Mediafire / Mega.nz)

A Mod Load Order.txt file will be in your game executable directory to indicate the mod is active.

Massive thanks to db-Palette for making the assets for this, doing some of the initial scripting, and giving me the kick in the ass I needed to make a mod load order handler.

Because mod making is a player-driven activity, I won’t be maintaining any sort of database on the subject. The best I will do is make a channel in the studio Discord that will have a list of all existing mods, if any surface after this one anyway.

All Bugs Fixed Forever, I Guarantee

That’s right, every single bug ever has been fixed, including the ones I haven’t even fixed yet. I’m just that good of a coder, every time you encounter a bug from now on it will be sent back in time and I’ll fix it and update before you even encounter the bug.

In a completely unrelated fact, any time the game behaves in a way that you’d consider erroneous or unexpected, that isn’t a bug, it is in fact an Unintended Feature, Obviously (UFO). I think tracking down, catching, and explaining UFOs is very important so I will focus my energies on those.

Art by the incomparable Yuuta Wisp. The mad bastard actually animated my shitpost. This will not be a recurring theme.

Public Chapter 1 Update Soon

The update goes public at the end of the month, which you can check your calendars to find out (there’s all kinds of amazing facts on your calendars! Like 27 happens, and then 28! And then 29 BUT ONLY SOMETIMES). I just got one of the maps from Hund and the other one comes tomorrow, so we might even have all of the chapter 1 images ready ON TIME. It’s a miracle.

Other Development Updating

The mod update for WHI is coming right along, I may release it on the same day as the chapter 1 update goes public. I have to hunt down a few bugs UFOs and Urimas is getting me some sprite sheets for the kitsune forms.

The WHI translation project is going well, I believe the technical hurdles are all done with and we just need to get the lines translated. I will make a few backend improvements like maxing line lengths on item names and the like, just to make it a bit easier to read in Japanese. Who knew this would be so difficult.

The mod update for WHI will be released but considered a “beta” since it has some misaligned text and may contain other bugs as a result of all my tinkering for translations. 1.06 is still the official version for people who just want to play the game as it was intended. I also have to make a modmaking guide before you’ll be able to REALLY get into it, but if any community members want to help and know Lua I’d appreciate the hell out of it.

Fan Art!

Made by Dias, commissioned by Justin Kinniger. It’s Christine Secrebot, except she’s got a maid outfit on! Is this a hint about chapter 5? Yes, yes it is. I can’t wait to work on it.

Curious Cat

Niko has taken up indoor gardening and become an expert on grass. He spent both his braincells on this puzzle.

Unrelated Question Website

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

Version 4.24 is Out

Changelog and download details are on the support page, or you can get it on Steam and Itch.io as usual. Since Steam/Itch don’t have very good ways to see changelogs I’ve decided to post them here. If you’re a person who doesn’t have access to these versions, you get them at the end of the month, for free.

Minor
*Added debug password “Escape Pipe” which will immediately end the current chapter. You lose all progress, it’s a debug password!

Bugs
*Fixed an issue with loading files from chapter 2/5.
*Fixed some misaligned whirlpools in Starfield Swamp.
*Fixed an incorrect border for one of Florentina’s abilities.
*Fixed bandit cat boss having transparency issues and being low on the battlefield.
*Fixed whirlpools spawning in some spots of Starfield Swamp during the rubber sequence.
*Fixed Autorun option not being toggled correctly in the options menu.
*Added missing turn order icons for mannequinized bandits.
*Fixed it not being night in one area of Starfield Swamp during the rubber sequence.
*Added missing bestiary entries for new enemies.
*Fixed DoT abilities using the crit strength instead of the normal strength in the description box.
*Fixed Polaris not mentioning the rubber queen costume password if using an old savefile that had already completed the quest.
*Removed some debug printing.

So What’s Developing?

I decided once I had finished the required translation changes for WHI that I would go ahead and do the upgraded mod support since I was already mucking around in its guts anyway. I even commissioned world-renowned artist db-palette to add some enemies to go with the monster forms they made, and threatened Urimas to make some sprites!

So you will get a few new playable forms for WHI soon as well as the mod information so you can make your own. The update will include an early (and incomplete) version of the JP translation, as well. We’re still working on it!

In other news, yes, Chic is working on the art. She’s also working 7 days a week at her day job so hell if I know when it’ll be done!

Curious Cat

Secret Agent Dmitri CAPTURED!?

How’s he going to get out of this one?

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

Version 4.23 is out

The changelog is on the support page and also bundled with the update if you got it on Steam. This is mostly a bugfix and QoL update, with some new gameplay and audio options to configure voice clips and whatnot. Of important note is the new badge system in chapter 1, allowing you to equip and unequip badges so enemy categories will ignore you if they would ignore that specific form.

This will also be added to chapter 5 when I do that update, as will a lot of other things.

I am currently still doing a few more fixes for the translation and modernizing the WHI combat code in anticipation of the Hard Mode update, as well as making the big pile of abilities it will need. Bug reports for Ch1 have slowed down so I may be able to start the chapter 5 fixes before the end of February.

The Results of the Poll

Oh boy.

Oh boy.

This means that – me as an insect girl won. Yes, really. I am technically a character in the game because I appear in the end credits, but how did that actually win? So I will be PERSONALLY commissioning Chic to draw the second place winner, Living Armor, because the other 1000 people who played the game and don’t care about our weird in-jokes will want to see a WHI thing and not my own vanity project even though it’s not a damn vanity project, YOU voted for it.

For reference, I suggested “Verand petting a corgi”. It got 7 votes. I love democracy.

As for when to expect this, it will be posted when it is ready. February is an extremely busy month for Chic, so I don’t know when. It will be posted on Steam, Itch.io, and here whenever it is ready.

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

Coding and Whatnot

The artists are off to the races on getting the chapter 5 stuff ready. Chicken is going to be finally getting the paragons to all have proper palette changes instead of just color inversion. Me? I fixed a ton of bugs last week and worked on a few features. There will be another bugfix patch for chapter 1 this week, as a few more bugs have popped up, and I have a feature or two I need to add (the badges system to chapter 1).

However, I spent a few days updating WHI’s Japanese translation. Fixed some errors, updated the spreadsheet, and switched the spacing to monospace. It’s all coming together! I have been told the translation is about 50% done.

Once that’s done, it’s back to the chapter 1 bugfixes, as well as doing a bunch of code updates to bring the combat AIs in line with the new systems. Lots of backend work that the player doesn’t really see but trust me, it’s worth it.

Witch Hunter Izana – Vote for Chic’s Art!

Last week I asked the public for their ideas. Chic decided to remove some of them, the rest? They’re on this public poll, vote for any that interest you! Next week I will send the results to Chic and hopefully we’ll have the 1000 sales reward done by the end of February.

Curious Cat

Look at him go.

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

Definitely got 100% of the bugs this time, yep. Not a single bug for the rest of development. The update and changelog are on the support page as usual, and can be found on Itch.io and the Steam beta branch.

The update is now on the supporter page. This is mostly bugfixes, but has a few QoL changes and some added abilities. The changelog is on the supporter page.

That’s right, chapter 1’s update is now out for Patrons and Subscribers. I will be putting up the Itch.io version shortly and then figuring out what I’m doing for Steam (Steam is dropping OSX 32-bit support so I need to reconfigure the game a bunch, oh joy).

This update becomes public on the last day of February. It features 4 new forms, several new quests, an absurdly dangerous combat area filled with nasty paragons, a host of bugfixes, an updated map, new characters, a trainer who can trade platina for EXP, a fortune teller who can help you find catalysts you missed, a new way to deal with the rubber quest…

Look there’s a lot of stuff in this update. Hopefully it will hold you over while I get the chapter 5 update ready. The real sinister purpose of this update was to get all of you to bugtest the code modernizations I’ve done so get those bug reports rolling.

If you’re not a patron or subscriber or Itch.io… er (Itcher?) then you can get the password and download right now for just a buck! A single dollar! And if you can’t do that, we accept pictures of your animals, or poetry!

Silly Witch Hunter Izana Art Poll

Remember how I said that if WHI passes 1000 sales, Chic will make a piece of art (possibly horny)? Well, we passed 1000 sales! This week, go to this google form and throw in your suggestions. Next week, we’ll vote on which one Chic has to make. Chic reserves the right to remove any she doesn’t like from consideration.

Curious Cat

The Links

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!

Update is Next Week!

That’s right, next week we got us an update coming out. We’re putting the finishing touches on the balance right now, and I’m dealing with a few extra topic situations and the like. Unfortunately, the maps and one extra CG will not be ready in time for the initial launch, that will have to get patched in.

As usual, patrons/subscribers/whatever will get the game on the 29th of January, while the public will get it on the last day of February.

Get psyched!

Fan Art

If you want to cancel your patreon/subscribestar/whatever due to the knowledge that this is what I do with my money, I agree with you, but please don’t punish the artists. Koops and Stinkehund don’t do stuff like this, they deserve your support.

Made by the brilliant Mugenbine, script by Salty :3

Curious Cat

The Link Pile

Rationally debate this post on the forums!    Discussion thread for String Tyrant!

Witch Hunter Izana’s forums page! Get it on Steam or Itch.io! It has a free demo!

Pandemonium’s Steam Page! You can get updates automatically.

Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

Buy String Tyrant, our gaiden game, on Itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

Ask us questions anonymously on Curious Cat!

Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Alternately, give us money on Subscribestar so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

DO NOT join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers might be cats, I can’t tell!